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Sunday: Help Us Begin Planning for Next Year
Monthly Garden Meeting — Sunday, Nov. 8, Noon – 1 p.m.
To keep the Garden open year round for our community to enjoy, Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden needs your expertise in:
- Urban gardening, as we expand this season's edible plantings;
- Community organizing and volunteer coordination;
- Educational, cultural and wellness programming;
- Grant writing and fundraising; and
- Communications, both digital/social and traditional.
If you are interested in volunteering and cannot attend this meeting, email volunteer@elizabethstreetgarden.org.
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Coat & Food Drive for The Bowery Mission Continues Though November
As winter approaches, please join us in collecting much-needed items to benefit our neighbor The Bowery Mission, whose demand for winter coats, canned goods and non-perishable foods has increased.
The following donations will be accepted in the Garden though Nov. 22.
- Coats: Large and extra-large men's winter coats are in especially high demand, but women’s and children’s coats will also be accepted.
- Canned goods: Soup, vegetables, beans (kidney beans, cannellini beans), tomatoes, tuna.
- Non-perishable foods: Mustard, ketchup, pasta, pasta sauce, rice, potatoes, grains (barley, quinoa).
For further information, visit bowery.org/donate/donate-goods.
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Coming Up in November
Fall Cleanup & Daffodil Bulb Planting — Saturday, Nov. 14, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Come help us rake leaves, plant bulbs, mulch and prepare the Garden for winter.
Weekly in the Garden
Children's Storytime — Thursdays, 10:30 – 11 a.m.
(While the temperature remains above 50 degrees.)
All Elizabeth Street Garden activities and events are open to the public and FREE. For up-to-date details, check out and subscribe to the Garden calendar.
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Highlights: Third Annual Harvest Festival & Wellness Programming
Third Annual Harvest Festival
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Hundreds of neighbors, families and friends celebrated on Oct. 24 at the third annual Elizabeth Street Garden Harvest Festival. Our community enjoyed a day of fun activities for all ages, live music, and lite bites and refreshments donated by neighborhood businesses.
Kids in Halloween costumes decorated pumpkins, painted faces, listened to storytime, and explored the Garden and dug in the dirt; adults toured the herb garden, watched a local chef cook from the Garden's harvest and designed greeting cards with pressed leaves; gardeners planted daffodil bulbs donated by New Yorkers for Parks; and many posted and tweeted from the social media sharing station.
Thanks to all of the volunteers, activity sponsors, musicians and contributors who helped make this year's festival a tremendous success!
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The Harvest Festival was the culmination of Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden's Edible Garden Lab neighborhood-led initiative, which began in spring to engage both children and adults with the Garden as a living laboratory, and was funded in part by a generous grant from Citizens Committee for New York City.
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Activity Sponsors & Musicians
Chinatown YMCA; musicians Jason Harrod & Friends; Little Peep Prep; The Montessori in SoHo; McNally Jackson Books with Argentine cartoonist and children's books author Liniers; Open Window; PUBLIC and chef de cuisine Alan Wise; and herbalist Kirsten Tempel.
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Lite Bites and Refreshments Donated By
A.B. Biagi, Black Seed, Cafe Habana, Café'tal Social Club, Caffé Roma, Little Rascal, Lovely Day, Pomodoro Pizza, Prince Street Pizza, PUBLIC, Rubirosa Ristorante and Tacombi.
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Wellness Programming Winds Down for 2015
The last weekly wellness classes of the season were held in the Garden at the end of October.
Thanks to volunteers Suzanne Monto and Wenji Zou for leading kids' yoga and meridian tapping and Erum Hasnain and Kristen Lalka for organizing vinyasa yoga. Thanks also to the local yoga studios and individual instructors who donated their time and services to support the popular program.
These classes, in addition to tai chi with the Chinatown YMCA, provided members of the community an opportunity to enhance their health and relax outdoors in the Garden.
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Late Fall Garden Hours
Late Fall Garden Hours (weather permitting)
Weekends, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Wednesdays & Fridays, Noon – 4 p.m.
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Volunteers keep the Garden open during the sunniest and warmest hours of the day, year round. Email volunteer@elizabethstreetgarden.org to help.
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